Tag: your space
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Lots of caffeine, not a lot of clothing
Just in time for cold weather: hot lattes and hot ladies. Bikini baristas work the windows at two new drive-through coffee stands in Colorado Springs: Wiki Wiki Coffee and Bikini Xpresso. Customers come for the uh, well, everything. “Nice view. Good way to start the morning,” said Wiki customer William Franceschi, taking in the scenery…
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Cha-ching! Pennies in a hot tub buy sweet dreams for kids
It’s like throwing coins in a fountain, only it’s a hot tub and the wishes will come true. Toss your spare change into a hot tub and hundreds of children will sleep better at night. The pennies will turn into pajamas for kids in need. Collette Guida and Pam Dashner operate Sweet Dreams, a nonprofit…
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State Fair cleanup: It’s like mopping up after half a million party guests
PUEBLO • It’s midnight, closing time at Colorado State Fair. “Lights out, let’s shut it down,” graveyard shift patrol officer Jack Hobby says from ground zero of the sparkling midway. The ride music stops. Flashing lights darken. Game barkers make final pleas to stragglers strolling to the gates. The festive mood ends when the funnel…
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YOUR SPACE: Car ding didn’t dent this ‘bull dog’s’ determination
You have one. Everybody does. A matter of a personal injustice that gnaws at you and forces you to make a choice: Get over it — or go forth to the bitter end. For Jerry McAffrey, what happened to her car wasn’t a disaster. It was a $1,300 ding that festered for four months. Jerry…
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YOUR SPACE: Quest to conquer 100 things leads to our peak
After his divorce, Australian Ian Usher didn’t cry in his beer. He chased new conquests. He made a list of 100 goals and gave himself 100 weeks to do it. Usher, 46, is halfway through his nonstop bucket list. He ran with bulls in Spain, worked a Canadian soup kitchen, hobnobbed at Cannes Film Festival,…
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YOUR SPACE: Young man’s trip to Afghanistan kills stereotypes
Fear led Sam Stephenson to Afghanistan. “I have a gripping fear of being boring,” says the 19-year-old college student. For two months, he helped in health clinics, tutored and painted schools in the province of Kabul, where “the homes looked like the Cliff Dwellings here.” The church-mission venture was an awakening for the tall, red-haired…
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YOUR SPACE: Former classmates rekindle friendships
They were girls in the South Junior High Class of 1946. Years went by. They went their own ways. After all, it wasn’t like they were BFFs. Not then, anyway, but now, 63 years later, they are Best Friends Forever. Ties to the past bond these seven classmates, and they’ve taken it from there. “We’ve…
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YOUR SPACE: Ballerina learns to stretch
It’s boot camp for ballerinas.It’s better known as The Royal Ballet School.Springs dancer Angela Wood, 17, went on a quick audition trip to the London school in January. She was accepted, effective immediately. Good thing she packed enough dancing shoes.”It was rough at first,” she said on a recent visit home. “The teachers are very…
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YOUR SPACE: Local poet fires up some free verse
“My father works for the Martin Drake power plant in Colorado Springs. Other men make radiators or poems. He makes lightning and puts his sun in your house.”That’s how Reed Underwood, 21, describes his dad’s job in “The Power Plant. A Georgic.” In person, the wiry, bearded poet puts it in more basic words: “It’s…
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YOUR SPACE: Couple bringing Cajun concoctions to Territory Days
Meet Fat Daddy and Hot Mama. They are good ol’ Louisiana folk who found themselves plopped in the suburbs of Colorado Springs without their Cajun potions. “We couldn’t find our good food,” says Richard Kennedy, aka Fat Daddy. So, the dark-haired Cajun and his “Hot Mama” blond wife, Sheila, started mixing up seasonings in the…